What is auto zoom?
Also called: automatic zoom, click to zoom, smart zoom
Definition
Auto zoom is a recorder feature that zooms in on the screen automatically, usually wherever the mouse is clicked.
It saves time: a recording comes out with zooms already in place. The trade-off is control. Clicks are not always what matters, so automatic zooms can land on unimportant clicks and miss a result that appears without one. Most tools let you delete or adjust them afterwards.
The alternative is placing zooms by hand, which takes a little longer and puts every zoom where the story needs it.
In Sceed
Sceed does not zoom automatically on clicks. You place zoom blocks, and inside a block the camera can follow the cursor by itself.
Related terms
- Zoom and pan
- Zoom and pan is moving a virtual camera over a video: zooming magnifies part of the frame, and panning slides the view across it.
- Easing
- Easing is the gradual speeding up and slowing down of a movement, so it starts and stops gently instead of abruptly.
- Cursor smoothing
- Cursor smoothing replaces the jittery path of a recorded mouse pointer with a clean, gliding one.